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Good solutions can't be cherry-picked
Ever noticed how political discussions between partisans has more cherry-picking of facts going on than a cherry-pickers convention? They refuse to even acknowledge the truth of a fact that weighs against their perspective. But to solve problems well, we need to pick up all the cherries in the bowl, weigh all the facts affecting the problem... Don't wait for the politicians, it's going to have to be the people who insist that there is a whole bowl of cherries, not just two.
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I'm wrote a blog for the website concerning this. America politics today is less about equal representation and more about a race to the majority. The unfortunate part is that Americans are the victims, to the tune of 46 million Americans without he…
It reminds me of what Chairman Leach said last week (oh my was that ONLY last week, doesn't it seem like 4 years) about how we've become more like a Parlimentary system where the opposition are the folks who try to stop it rather than participants i…
This was the name of an opinion piece in the New York Times a few weeks ago that I found very interesting. It discusses the filibuster and how its use has changed over time. One part of this article suggests that due to the fact that Senators no lon…
While I think you can take the polite "Happy Holidays" too far by mandating it rigidly or being somehow offended if people say "Merry Christmas" (and I think gentle reminders from the right don't hurt to remind when we might take political correctne…
I agree that a lot of it is overstated. If anything I think we should be more open to other cultures. Christmas is a time of love and peace and happiness and sould remind us all that we are all part of the race of mankind. I think the bigger problem…
Here's the article that I was reading.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/18/war.on.christmas/index.html?eref=rss_politics&iref=polticker
Every December there seems to be talk about a "War on Christmas". I see bumper stickers that say "Keep Christ in Christmas" and members of Congress propose bills to discourage schools and other public places from removing Christmas Trees and religio…
I'm glad to be absorbing information about all of this and I'm looking forward to our next dinner. Thanks guys for putting things out there (Gail do you get The Economist? I can lend you old copies if you're interested- I get excited reading it, esp…
I like that phrase, "sloppy thinker" . When time and money aren't on your side (a bill may or may not be passed, you've got limited air time, etc.), explaining context or getting to the meat remains important but not urgent.
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